Survey procedures

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Hello all,

I wonder if survey procedures only apply to survey data with a sampling design frame? I read a paper which analyzed non-sampled data (patient claims) and the author used survey procedures (surveyreg and surveylogistic) to do the analysis with "cluster" effects (provider). I think the regular hierachical model (LME, GLE or GEE) should be applied to this situation, but I am not quite sure about this. Can anyone give me some suggestions?

Many thanks!!

Yue